Ego Defenses--Immature

Question 1

Unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed thru actions (tantrums)?

Answer 1

Acting out

Question 2

Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress?

Answer 2

Dissociation–extreme forms can result in dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)

Question 3

Avoidance of awareness of some painful reality (common reaction in newly dx AIDS/cancer pt)?

Answer 3

Denial

Question 4

Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object (mother yells at child, bc her husband yelled at her)?

Answer 4

Displacement (vs. projection)

Question 5

Partially remaining at a more childish level of development (men fixating on sports games)?

Answer 5

Fixation

Question 6

Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (tho not necessarily admired)?

Answer 6

Identification–abused child identifies himself/herself with an abuser

Question 7

Separation of feelings from ideas and events (describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response)?

Answer 7

Isolation (of affect)

Question 8

An unacceptable internal impulse is attributed to an external source (a man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him)?

Answer 8

Projection (vs. displacement)

Question 9

Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame?

Answer 9

Rationalization–after getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway

Question 10

Process whereby a warded-off idea/feeling is replaced by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite?

Answer 10

Reaction formation (vs. sublimation)–a pt with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery

Question 11

Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world?

Answer 11

Regression (vs. fixation)–bedwetting in a previously toilet-trained child when hospitalized

Question 12

Involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness?

Answer 12

Repression (vs. suppression)–not remembering a conflictual or traumatic experience; pressing bad thoughts into the unconscious

Question 13

Belief that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity (seen in boderline personality)?

Answer 13

Splitting–a pt says that all the nurses are cold and insensitive but that the doctors are warm and friendly